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The electoral upset has sent every sector scrambling to recalibrate their outlook on the future. The upcoming president isn’t making it easy for the prognosticators and pundits: as consumer- and worker-advocate Paul Bland notes: president-elect Donald Trump “ran a campaign where there was less release of detailed position papers than in any other modern presidential […]

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Mom of 4. FOUR! I swear I know how it happened. Andrew and I got through three years of law school and one year of finding a job without a pregnancy scare. Then we decided to have a kid. I became pregnant within a year. I then lost my job, was hired by a solo […]

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Are you doing enough to communicate with your clients? A couple months ago, the New York Times told the sad and seedy story of Stuart A. Schlesinger, an esteemed personal injury lawyer in Manhattan: “Mr. Schlesinger, 76, [was] arrested on a fraud charge in one of the more brazen schemes in the annals of […]

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Last month a former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was given a light jail sentence for sexual assault of an unconscious woman. A couple weeks ago, two black men — Alton Sterling and Philando Castile — were fatally shot by police, the first while immobilized and the second during a traffic stop. In these cases […]

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Hey supervising attorneys: your staff evaluations might not be up to snuff. Consider this your first warning. Here are some ways to do it right: Typically an attorney goes into practice without dwelling on the fact that ‘practice’ includes all that running-a-whole-office-like-a-boss thing. When your head is pulsing with case law and your day is […]